WIP Better coast USA (west coast but more realistic)

Please refer to new messages on this post for updates and more stuff ! (also planning on adding better road markings)

Hi guys !
Today I am very excited to show you some progress on my new map named Better Coast USA
This map is an improved version of west coast with new features and more realistic road markings.
For the moment I can't show you a ton of things but for the future I am planning on adding working train tracks and an airport on the island where the bridge ends.
Edit : this will probably not be in the first release since I have no idea of how to do this !

As you can see I did some world edits (I am not using my reshade preset or any other preset here)
You can also see that I did some changes to the belasco skyline.

For the road markings I changed the color of the line seperating the HOV lane from the rest of the freeway from yellow to the US standard white

I also changed the color of the zebra lines to the US standard yellow.


And to finish for today I also tweaked this intersection wich was complete chaos.


PS (1) : I might be releasing this map this week or next week
PS (2) : Sorry if my english isn't perfect, it isn't my first language I might have made some mistakes, I am writing this pretty fast and I don't wanna use google translate because I know it won't translate anything properly.


As you can see this is what it will look like with my reshade preset wich I recommand using

If you see some weird vertical lines when using my preset then try to set RESHADE_DEPTH_INPUT_IS_REVERSED to 1 in the global preprocessor definitions and this should fix
Also please note that the release on repo will probably come after the release on this thread

 

Nice pictures, although my biggest suggestion would be connect the highways (hint you could use Italy's airport for one end and another end as a cruise ship port)

 

Yes I am thinking about using the italy airport but that would be difficult to add. (working train tracks are easier to implement for the moment)
Also sorry to ask, but what do you mean by "connect the highways" ?

 

I mean the highways at the end should be connected to a location (like an airport I have said) not blocked off. If better you could make both ends loop each other.

 

This will be difficult to do but I might still consider this as an option

 

Morning post : As you can see I added a new office tower to the Belasco City skyline
I also changed fixed a few things here and there on the highways

 

Can an airport be added

 

I might try

 

fantastic! is maybe possible to add a crash test area and a military base area?

 

Evening post : added more buildings to the Belasco skyline, a forest, a weird looking crawling area near the cell tower and some bugfixes and more !





I'm gonna let me some time to make sure that everything is working and that there is no bugs and then it is gonna time for the WIP release

 

We all know what you mean

 

Hey Mother Nature, what's on your mind?

 

Well I can't really add an airport so if you wanna fly planes just go to the italy map (I might also be working on secret project called "Better Ital...)
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But who knows ? (I do)

 

What's stopping you from adding the airport ?

 

Well I tried some stuff and I am not really sure if I'm gonna release it some day because Italy isn't as popular as West Coast USA
And if no one is asking for a better version well I'm not gonna west my time working on it

There's not enough place for adding an airport and i'm not enough skilled to it anyway

Edit : I tweaked a few little things (mostly the graphics) before the release hopefully everything should be ready tomorrow

 

So I have worked on the Best Coast USA graphics and they look way better now !
I might find very few little bugs to fix and then I will release the map

 

Try to make an airport and a port on the island (to which a blue bridge leads, with a railway) and a railway from the island which is laid along the bridge, then through the city, with the vanilla station, and then under the city (in the vanilla tunnel) I propose to build a bridge with a railway over the southern highway from the tunnel into the mountains, and turn around the map so that the railway returns to the island via a second bridge over the water. if you want, you can branch out for your career.
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https://www.beamng.com/resources/railroad-switch.18253/
This may come in handy

 

This is really difficult to do but I may try

 

No, it is not difficult to lay the rails over the vanilla ones, then using a special tool (bone) to make a hole in the landscape (in the vanilla tunnel) Then you lay rails underground to the southern freeway, and make a bridge over the highway (you can use it from Utah and the East Coast of the USA) and then through the forest, around the map.
If you give your Discord, I can send you a plan (map).
Му: Stefan190506 #5839

 

I have finished the first realease of the map. For the following updates I will try to implement an airport but I am not sure of how to do it.
After some time to think, yes I will start working on a new map called Better Italy